Comments on: iStroll Kid iPad holder connects to a stroller letting kids communicate, play, and learnhttp://www.slashgear.com/istroll-kid-ipad-holder-connects-to-a-stroller-letting-kids-communicate-play-and-learn-31267555/
Feeding Your Gadget and Tech ObsessionsSun, 02 Aug 2015 22:30:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: RJ Cooperhttp://www.slashgear.com/istroll-kid-ipad-holder-connects-to-a-stroller-letting-kids-communicate-play-and-learn-31267555/#comment-313596
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:51:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-313596I work with disabled children and have offered several items of this nature to my field of Assistive Technology for the last 3 years (in business for 30 years). I do not like seeing yet another product in my field that duplicates my efforts and items. So I do not support this project. In looking at the posts below, I want to make it clear that the iPads that *my* mounts use are for ‘being’ a child’s voice when they don’t have one, or provides access to the iPad when the children cannot hold it themselves.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:34:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270367Hi Everyone, first of all. I do appreciate everyone’s feedback in the matter. It definitely allows me to look at other perspectives that are different then my own. I would like to clear a few things though.

1. I’m not creating anything that forces a child to be confined to a stroller playing on an IPad. I also believe that anything like video games and TV in excess is bad. What about the built in DVD player inside cars? In the end, it is the parents that decide, not the iStroll Kid. The iStroll Kid does not prevent a child from looking at birds, skies or the sun, parents do. Personally, i don’t find anything wrong with using this in situations where you are stuck in line at the DMV (good luck with a one year old!).

2. My son has used the IPad growing up. I monitor it closely as I feel anything excessive is bad. He is 4 now, and guess what? He is very healthy, loving and is one of the brightest kids in his class. I’ve yet to see a case of a kid with development issues due to screen time.

3. When I first started this project I did receive similar feedback. I will be honest,
it made me hesitant to continue. I don’t think anyone wants to create anything that harms anyone especially children. But then i started receiving emails like this:

“My 6 year old son has seizures and is non verbal. Last year I purchased him the Ipad and for the first time he’s been able clearly to communicate his needs and wants. I’ve been looking for an attachment for his wheelchair/stroller, since he is not able to hold the Ipad and use it at the same time. This looks perfect!”

Please understand that if this product does not fit your needs, that’s fine..you have every right not to buy it. But there are kids that are out there that this could be a valuable tool to improve their quality of life.

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:08:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270351I am revolted by this idea. You clearly have done very little literature review on the neuroscience of this kind of thing for young children. Even educational apps should be used sparingly. The American Pediatric Assoc says no screen time for under 2s and 1/2 an hour a day maximum over that while in early childhood. At the very least, the time out and about in their strollers is a time for them to engage in the world around them, not be subjected to MORE screen time. We want creative, highly focused, highly intelligent and inquisitive brains – all the research is pointing to the fact that screen time stops this process in its tracks. There will be some very interesting data to look at in the years to come.

I would be willing to bet you do not have children in your care, and you have bought into the ‘children need education’ hype rather than letting children do what they do best – play and learn.

Anyone who puts money towards this is absolutely crazy and irresponsible.

I am almost willing to bet this is a hoax it is such an appalling idea.

Can’t wait for this to go viral – is that what you were after?

Incidentally, I love technology and want my son to have a brain that can easily interpret this and work with it in the future. Nothing suggests that the best way to do this is give him as many hours as possible in the early years to achieve this.

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:28:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270290um, she is not learning her number and alphabets by herself. They are computer generated images that she has memorized and do not impact the way she learns numbers and letters, in the way that children learn their letters and numbers. She will be farther behind when it comes to rationalizing what numbers and letters really mean, because right now she just thinks they magically pop up on a screen.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:25:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270288I think you should look into what is recommended play things that foster development in young children two and under and then put your project on a shelf until the recommendation changes. You are contributing to a tragic misfortune for our future generations with this thing.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:16:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270286Oh, so sad. Please allow your children the benefit of NOT having this device. Would it be so terrible for a child to see the birds, the trees, the people, the actual world around them as they commute?
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:03:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270280If Pediatric Health professionals think that children two and under should not watch TV I think that a stroller IPad or other electronic would not be what we would want children in strollers to be playing. I am a mom, grandmother and preschool teacher and children learn best through all five senses and through close relationships with their parents or caregivers….this provides none of that! It is just one more way to take our children away from real relationships and true learnng…it is only about money not about helping children learn.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:56:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270279There are good ideas and bad ideas. This is a bad idea. Unless it is meant as a satirical comment on our civilization’s dependence on technology and our need to buy useless crap. If that is the case it is brilliant. Kids get enough screen time–they should be able to go for a stroll without it. Last time I checked there were lots of interesting things to look at in the real world.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:05:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270277Disgusting!! Hasn’t research recently shown that “screens” before 2 is harmful to brain development? I hope this project fails. Leave the babies be!!
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:51:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270271this is absolutely appalling! I am disgusted that products like this are being targeted at children who studies have proven should not be spending time in front of screens. I sincerely hope that the funding fails and this does not go ahead!
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:32:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270269This is absolutely repellent! I would pay for this to be NOT developed. Screen time for under-threes is actively harmful to their development, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Turn off the screens, get them out of the strollers and get them playing with REAL stuff! Sticks, mud, cardboard boxes, rope, tools – the list is endless. Real kids need real play, not screen time!
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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:28:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270267“Interesting. Very interesting. But stoopid?” (name that show!)
Can’t think of much worse for infants, (well being run over, maybe, drowning)
Just let them be, looking, smelling, hearing, singing – anything but more IT
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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:02:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270141I am not saying tablets are bad for kids, but moderation seems to be lacking with this invention.

Also, I don’t blame her for liking iOS, I would too if I was her. Its the Fisher Price of Operating Systems

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:06:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270035I am currently visiting my 23 month old daughter in the Philippines. She uses my iPhone 4 and the original Samsung 7 inch tablet to play games, listen to music and watch videos. She is learning the alphabet and numbers by herself when she wants. She still goes out to play the all the kids in the street whenever she wants.

I can see this may screw her eyes up but definitely not her development. In a developed country I do accept it may be harder for her to have a balanced life but here it is ideal. Well if you don’t mind the heat, humidity, pollution and Mosquitos.

And for your information she prefers IOS to Android. But it is a very old version of Android.

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:01:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270024Awesome. Because attention spans weren’t getting short enough, we now need to kick them in arse and teach our kids to be always playing with computer.

And this is coming from someone who 15 years ago used a pda for school notes.

Spend time with your kids parents, Jesus!

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:44:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=267555#comment-270019iNeed to play outside to prevent that iNeed glasses when iGrow older and iWon’t get obese or get RSi when iPlay like every healthy kid outside in the fresh open air (yes that’s if the kid has no health issues of course)
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